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GRATITUDESAS INSPIRED BY ONE THOUSAND GIFTS BY ANNE VOSKAMP 

.POPSICLES DRIPPING ON A CHIN

  • Kittens chasing sunlight

  • AWESOME SPELLED "OSOM"

  • ​Rainy day gray

  • Grandma's generosity heaping over a pile of folded laundry

  • Gentle, giant-clouds

  • Dirt roads ambling into the forest

  • CONSTRUCTION PAPER WINGS

  • The teeming life of a puddle

  • WORDS

  • Puzzles and little hands in the the sunlight

  • The rambling chaos of life lived out loud

  • SONGS SUNG AT THE TOP OF A VOICE

  • pillows and blankets

  • children all tucked in and slumbering

  • recognizing a friend

  • Leaves skipping across puddles in the icy spring winds

  • singing the wrong words to a song just because you want to sing

  • God's alchemy

  • Grinding pain that regauges perspective

  • The opalesque drop of joy in the charred remains of grief

  • A book holding the hand of quiet

  • WHEN GREEN GRASS TOUCHES THE CHEEKS OF THE BLUE SKY

 

  • White noise

  • Shadow and light

  • crooked things

  • a concordance

  • The lullabye of the dishwasher

  • finding a quarter in my pocket

  • a flag flying

  • Feet kicking the sky on the edge of a swing

  • bedtime stories

  • The flowerlike stem at the top of an orange

  • The vein system of an orange slice

  • sunlight dancing on the flurry of black and white fluff-energy crouched on the armoire

  • emerald crowned Mallard on a puddle in a construction site

  • bluebelles multiplied like snowflakes on the grass

  • laughing together in the store

  • A hug from a stranger

  • orange, comet-clouds across the evening sky

  • multi-hued branches twisting up their naked arms in praise for the  sun-shadow of spring

  • lessons learned

  • A summer's day stretching out before you like a hammock

  • climbing trees

  • The first of the spring breezes blowing through an open window

  • Concrete and Bike Tires

  • A dollar in your pocket and a store up the street

  • The protracted sigh of "little" getting bigger

  • open windows

  • A hurried escape out of the front door

  • Boys, prentending in old cars 

  • unknown, yellow flower, curled up under a tree

  • Little dresses blying by on the periphery of spring

  • history, crumbled up and unheeded for centuries

  • spoofing

  • Flagrant, Unabashed Sunshine

  • spontaneity

  • Eating french fries on the sidewalk

  • Ketchup stained smiles

  • SIMILE AND METAPHOR

  • The smell of hot dogs cooking

  • Rabbit prints in the snow on my front porch

  • Truth raining down like a song

  • Long, gravel roads

  • inside jokes

  • Music

  • praise

  • Full-throttle, abandoned worship

  • strangers pointing the way to a gas station

  • ​Scarlet kissing the top of my head

 

  • boyhood, all skinned knees and combustion

  • picnics

  • freshly mown grass

  •   The gossiping, busy-body way of snow falling

  •  A lap cat who won't let you feel lonely

  • Brynn choosing Mucho Burrito because it was the only place I could eat

  • Girlhood, all spinning dresses and glitter

  • An automatic car starter

  • Skye wanting to wear a dress

  •   all things gnarled and broken, black against the white snow

  •  Signs of life in the footprints zig zagging in the snow

  • The swashbuckling, sword play patterns in the frost on my window.

  •    The power of story

  • paper butterflies

  • Butter-yellow tulips reaching to the sun

  • Pink Hair

  • Bikes and princess skirts

  • A pink petal blizzard

  • The delicate curl of the Iris

  • paint

  • Mother love

 

  •  sleigh rides, maple syrup toffee and furry hats

  •     Quiet, with the tick of the clock for company

  • The creeking of trampoline springs

  • Biscuit and gravy memories

  • Rose red

  • A fireplace

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